Refugees Held on Greek Island Wonder About Their Future

April 2, 2016 7:18 PM

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Men lounge on concrete slabs a few meters from the barbed-wire-topped chain-link fence that surrounds this center in Lesbos, Greece. It was once a refugee camp. But now the inhabitants are more like inmates, unable to leave if they chose to.

Millions of refugees and economic migrants are pouring into Europe from North Africa, the Mideast, parts of south Asia. President Obama and Hillary Clinton want to allow up to 100,000 of them into the US. Compared to the overall problem it's a drop in the bucket. But compared to America's resources and capabilities to weed out the terrorists it would be overwhelming. It's a very bad idea but when someone like Donald Trump points that out, he's called a racist. Small wonder most Americans don't trust their government.

Sorry don't care about dumb people who paid a smuggler to enter a country illegally when the border has been closed for how long now? Also refugees being sent back to Turkey was in process and all over the news before they chose to cross. You can't fix stupid and it's hard to feel sorry for the gimmigrants who left a safe country knowing the border was closed. Also the government of Greece needs to run off the abettors to smuggling who are helping them land on their shores and feeding them. This perceived act of charity just encouraged others to cross.

These refugees should ask victims of Paris and Brussels bombing how they feel about their families being blown to pieces by 2nd generation Muslim refugees whom they fed, housed and welfare for years. Rape victims in Sweden, Netherlands and Germany fear refugees in their backyards. It is indeed cruel to separate families. People who died in Paris and Brussels bombings have families too. They are now PERMANENTLY separated from their loved ones. They were the ones waving welcoming signs to refugees when they arrived. There is no way to distinguish between a good Muslim or a terrorist because nobody has any ID, passport or valid criminal data because their home country is so corrupt. We should risk our lives to take refugees and just hope they dont rape us, bomb us, nuke us or shoot our football stadiums? The lives of our families and children are equally important and just as painful to see them bombed, maimed, killed or disabled. Sorry for you, yes; help you to bomb us in our backyard, no way.